Crime Spree

Posted on October 23, 2009

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Over the past week there’s been a rash of robberies and thefts…in my building! Yesterday Matthew found out his car was stolen from the lower garage. It’s behind two separate security gates! A handful of cars that were either unlocked or the sunroofs were open were also rummaged through including Zack and Dina’s cars. What the hell is going on around here.

The police arrested some asshole who was breaking into cars in another downtown condo building and they seem to think he (and probably his friends) are the culprits.

There’s still no clear guilty party and we still don’t know exactly when they stole poor little Matthew’s car. Hopefully the security cams in the garage can shed some light.

In the meantime there’s not much I can do to keep my motorcycle safe in the garage. I guess my only hope is they’re too retarded to know how to ride a motorcycle. I always lock the front wheel to the left so unless they break it, they can’t ride it out. It still doesn’t keep them from lifting the damn thing into someone’s truck but at least that’s a bit more of a mission. I thought about getting Lo-Jack but that’s like a grand, which I don’t have right now.

I say bring back the nightly security guards in the garage. Otherwise we’ll have to do a neighborhood watch program of some sort. Time for some vigilante justice.

Psychotic on the 7th Floor

Posted on October 21, 2009

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Some psychotic on the 7th is going at it again, this time beating the crap out of his girlfriend. Yelling and screaming at 8am this morning. The front desk even had to call the cops. What the hell is going on around here?! I don’t want a maniac like that as a neighbor and no one, NO ONE should ever hit a woman. Hate people like that, go shoot yourself asshole.

Hopefully he found his way to a nice comfy jail cell by now.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia…Denied

Posted on September 25, 2009

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So Primecast, our monopolized building dish service provider dropped the ball last night in a big way. I don’t watch too many shows but this is one I can’t miss.

Last night about halfway through the new episode service was simply gone. The screen just sat there saying acquiring satellite signal step 0 of 5…. and nothing. So after 10 minutes of screwing with it, powering off, etc I gave them a call. Wow, Primecast sucks. I can’t believe they’re still in business. It’s such a rip-off and my building has a contract with them so we’re kind of screwed for the time being.

As a matter of fact, the service is STILL DOWN this morning at 8:47… since last night! Are you kidding me?! This has got to be the most unreliable group of fuck ups in the cable/satellite distribution network. What a bunch of morons.

Scoffed At…

Posted on July 8, 2009

Last night I attended a Web Meet-up group down at Roxies in the hope of networking and conversing with others in my field. Unfortunately half of the participants were unable so show because it was postponed to Tuesday (normally it’s held on the first Monday of the month). Overall it was pretty cool and informative. I’m not much of a full blown programmer so the Ruby presentation was pretty much over my head. The CSS frameworks presenter was of those unable to attend, which was my secondary purpose for being there.

The only thing that really irked me was one particular member scoffed at the fact I use Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks on a daily basis. I blew it off at first then it began to grate on me a bit. Maybe this particular person thinks I use the completely useless “Design Mode” during development, who knows. I typically only use code view and code almost everything by hand. I’ve used coders such as Coda and TextWrangler but both have issue with code highlighting. As far as the others I use them for what they were meant for…

Photoshop – high end design comps, complicated photo manipulation, patterns, backgrounds, etc.

Fireworks- web and UI layouts, final web graphics (as it tends to do a much better job of compressing images than Photoshop) and quick design comps.

I just had to get that off my chest since I’ve never been scoffed at for using “Industry Standard Applications” before. I wanted to ask what said participant was using? Some trendy free open source application probably.

So How Bad Is It? Yeah, It’s Pretty Bad

Posted on June 12, 2009

I’m talking of course about the current economic situation. Just to give you an example of just how bad it is, my entire family is laid off. How’s that grab you?

My Mom was laid off a few months ago, stepfather as well. My twin sister and step brother are also both back in the job hunting market and of course, yours truly has been laid off since mid May. That’s pretty damn bad. Thanks AIG!

About the only bright spot lately is my gracious landlord agreed to lower my rent a couple hundred dollars during this time of turmoil. Thank you so much Audry, you have no idea how much I appreciate it. It was extremely tough to ask but I’m so thankful you understand.

Well, at least it’s Friday – so we got that going for us.

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